This could be cute. But, how to do it? Is it even possible?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christian Reis
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 1999 6:30 AM
> To: Admin Mailing Lists
> Cc: Bruno Prior; Linux-Raid; Egon Eckert
> Subject: RE: Root RAID and unmounting /boot
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Admin Mailing Lists wrote:
>
> > The thing I TOTALLY don't get is if the first drive dies, how can
> > you boot the 2nd drive (mirror) when you're still losing the small
> > bootable partition (as it's still part of drive 1). Of
> course you can put
> > this bootable partition on a seperate drive, but you still
> dont have the
> > redundancy because THAT drive can die.
>
> You forget your option of having a small bootable partition
> on each of the
> drives composing the raid array, which is how it's done. Or
> used to be,
> before the lilo.raid1 patch was produced to let us boot off a raided
> partition.
>
> > Wouldn't it be easier to stick the kernel, lilo config,
> relevant boot info
> > on a floppy and boot raid1 systems from that?
> > perhaps i'm missing something..more likely that not :-)
>
> Where's the redundancy with a single floppy?
>
> k
>
